Soundtrack (film)

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Soundtrack
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Directed byNeerav Ghosh
Written byNeerav Ghosh
Rajiv Gopalakrishnan
Chintan Gandhi
Based on It's All Gone Pete Tong (2004)
Produced bySanjiv Goenka
Apurv Nagpal
Starring Rajeev Khandelwal
Soha Ali Khan
Mrinalini Sharma
CinematographyAnshuman Mahaley
Edited bySanjey Roderick
Ambar Vyas
Music by Midival Punditz
Karsh Kale
Production
company
Saregama India Limited
Release date
  • 7 October 2011 (2011-10-07)
Running time
132 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

Soundtrack is a 2011 Indian Hindi-language drama film and an official remake of the British/Canadian independent film It's All Gone Pete Tong (2004). [1] It was directed by newcomer Neerav Ghosh and stars Rajeev Khandelwal and Soha Ali Khan. [2]

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Plot

Raunak Kaul (Rajeev Khandelwal) lives, eats and breathes music, having inherited the talent and passion from his deceased father Parth Kaul, who was an unsuccessful musician. He arrives in Mumbai, and starts as a DJ in his uncle Surendra's (Yatin Karyekar) night club Tango Charlie, owned by Charlie (Mohan Kapoor). Raunak soon finds himself expanding his avenues to establishing his own studio, making his own music and composing the score for a movie by Anurag Kashyap.

Raunak starts to lose his hearing, first apparent when he hears a high-pitched ringing sound instead of his interview on TV. At this time, Raunak is making his next album with his mates Banjo (Ankur Tewari) and Biscuit (Siddharth Coutto). Raunak continues working and playing gigs at clubs, but his hearing degrades rapidly and progress on his album stagnates. Raunak refuses to acknowledge his problem until a gig in the club, when he cannot hear the second channel in his headphones and must crossfade one song into the next without being able to beatmatch them. The crowd boos him, and he throws the turntable and the mixer onto the dance floor, and is forcibly removed from the club. Raunak agrees to see a doctor (Manu Rishi), who tells him he's lost hearing in one ear and has 30% left in the other. He warns Raunak that unless he stops abusing drugs and listening to loud noises, he will soon be completely deaf.

During a recording session, Raunak confesses the full nature of his hearing loss to Banjo. He inserts his hearing aid to demonstrate, and, overwhelmed by the sudden sound exposure, leans close to one of the monitor speakers. Before he can react, however, a frustrated Biscuit smashes a guitar into an amplifier whose volume is maximized. The noise is excruciating, and the feedback knocks Raunak unconscious. The damage leaves him permanently deaf.

Without his hearing, Raunak cannot complete his album. He loses his recording contract, and Charlie abandons him. Soon after, Shonali leaves him. He falls into deep depression, repeatedly throwing his body against the walls. Raunak flushes all his drugs down a toilet, only to be faced with the vision of a menacing badger. Raunak fights and kills it, and removes the badger's head to reveal that the badger is, in fact, himself.

Raunak meets Gauri (Soha Ali Khan), an instructor for the deaf who coaches him in lip-reading. They become close, and eventually intimate. He confides his unhappiness at losing music, and she helps him perceive sound through visual and tactile methods instead. Raunak devises a system for mixing songs, in which he watches an oscilloscope trace while resting his feet on the pulsating speakers, managing to produce new mix CD (Raunak Is "Hear") entirely by himself. He delivers it to Charlie, who is wildly pleased – particularly by the potential of using Raunak's disability to increase record sales.

Charlie convinces Raunak to play live as a career comeback, despite Raunak's insistence that he has nothing to prove to his critics. The gig goes exceedingly well, and many claim it showcases even greater talent than his early work. After the show, Raunak and Gauri disappear from Charlie, the media, and the music scene altogether. In a talking heads sequence, characters speculate on where he is now (if alive). As the film ends, we see Raunak teaching a group of deaf children how to perceive sound like he does. Additionally, we see Raunak who is then met by Gauri and a child (presumably their own). They affectionately walk together down a street unrecognized.

Cast & Crew

Music

No.TitleSinger(s)Length
1."Symphony of the streets" (Instrumental)  
2."What the F" Anushka Manchanda  
3."Mein Chala" Kailash Kher  
4."Ek Manzil"Vishal Vaid 
5."Ruk Jaana Nahin" Suraj Jagan  
6."Jannat"Ankur Tewari 
7."Banao" Angarag Papon Mahanta  
8."Naina Laagey" Angarag Papon Mahanta  
9."Yeh Jeevan Hai" Malini Awasthi  
10."Fakira"Vishal Vaid 
11."Atomizer"Gaurav Raina, Karsh Kale 
12."The Soundtrack theme" (Instrumental)  

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References

  1. ↑ "Rajeev Khandelwal and Soha starrer Soundtrack to release in August 2011". Bollywood Hungama News Network. 7 January 2011.
    - "Soha Ali Khan, Rajeev Khandelwal promote Soundtrack in Mumbai". Daily News and Analysis. 18 September 2011.
    - "Rajeev Khandelwal & Soha Ali's SOUNDTRACK to release on 30th September". Glamsham. 23 July 2011.
  2. ↑ "Soundtrack – Cast and Crew". Glamsham. 7 August 2021.
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